REST Assured Contract Job Trends in Manchester

REST Assured
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 71 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.41% 0.45% -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.11% 2.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £616 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile - £425 -
90th Percentile - £470 -
North West median daily rate £640 £400 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

REST Assured falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 225 149 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.05% 16.72% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 102 146
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £529 £575
90th Percentile £638 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £447 £500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -10.60% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 4
10th Percentile - £71.63 £61.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.19 £65.31
Median hourly rate £59.25 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% - +89.39%
75th Percentile £72.81 £77.81 £81.38
90th Percentile £93.10 £78.38 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
% change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +3.80%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST Assured relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

REST Assured job vacancy trend in Manchester

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) Gatling
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) GitLab
3 4 (57.14%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
5 1 (14.29%) Git
5 1 (14.29%) Gradle
5 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
5 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Military
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Playwright
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Kafka
3 4 (57.14%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) Quarkus
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Observability
5 3 (42.86%) API Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (42.86%) BDD
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) SDET
6 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Coaching
6 2 (28.57%) Component Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Istio
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace